Knowledgeable

[Todd]

I think it depends on the writer's method, I research like crazy. I read a few 500 page Howard Hughes biographes and took about 15 pages of notes for one poem. Same with coroner reports for another, heroin addict interviews for another, and I have revisions I don't want to attempt before doing more research. That's my method though, I know people that are more confessional who wouldn't even think of doing this. They tend to just move from instinct--nothing wrong with it.